Chenzi Xu

✨Our team is expanding. Join us at #ManyTones!

The second CorpusPhon Workshop is up, a satellite event at Labphon 2026. Please check this out and submit your abstract! #corpusphonetics #phonetics #labphon2026 #corpusphon

Glad to co-organise CorpusPhon this year. Stay tuned for an abstract call soon!

Alumni talk this afternoon at PolyU. Drop by if you’re around and interested! #linguistics #polyu #academia

If you are curious about Plastic Mandarin, feel free to check out my new paper: www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi... #phonetics #linguistics #citationtone

We presented our #ManyTones project at the 2025 #BigTeamScience Conference. We talked about project background, pilot study, and challenges. The slides are available at chenchenzi.github.io/manytones/pr.... Feel free to check them out 👀

Join me at the #BigTeamScience Conference, where I'll be presenting live via Zoom today (Oct 6) from 14:30-14:55 UTC(15:30 UK). Register now (for free or pay-what-you-want) at bigteamscience.github.io to catch my Talk on our “ManyTones” project! #ManyTones #linguistics #phonetics

There's still time to register for the 2025 Big Team Science Conference (October 6-8, live on Zoom)! All fees are OPTIONAL, so you can pay what you'd like (or nothing at all!) to gain access to a ton of amazing BTS content. bigteamscienceconference.github.io/registration/

The ManyTones project is looking for several lead positions. See poster for details. 📢📣✨ Get involved! 🎉🤝🌟

Thank you the team at Leiden University for the opportunity to present on working with large-scale speech corpus. 🖥️Slides are available at: chenzixu.rbind.io/talk/corpus/. #Corpusphonetics #speechcorpus #linguistics

Hands-on MFA series on low-resource language Bora, based on fieldwork word lists from a single speaker (~1.5 hours!). #phonetics #MFA #forcedalignment #tutorial ⭐️ available at: chenzixu.rbind.io/resources/3a...

Experimental Phonetics Postdoc opportunity at HKU with Ricky Chan (HKU), Paul Foulkes (York UK) , Cuiling Zhang (Southwest University of Political Science & Law, China) and Bruce Wang(PolyU, HK). Please feel free to email Ricky (rickykwc@hku.hk) for an informal chat. jobs.hku.hk/en/job/53256...

ManyLanguages starts its first BigTeamScience project: ManyTones. Get in touch with the lead team if you want to be involved.

Super excited that our project is accepted and is officially launching 🎊 Stay tuned for more details!

New Cantonese acoustic models are available! 💛trained using the Common Voice 19 Cantonese subset and Chinese (Hong Kong) subset, with 3400 speakers. 💛different phone set/dictionary options #MFA #phonetics #Cantonese github.com/chenchenzi/H...

🚨New preprint🚨 "Big Team Science for language science: Opportunities and Challenges" osf.io/3pkj6/ Led by @faytak.bsky.social @sarkadava.bsky.social @chenzi.bsky.social @onurunki.bsky.social @aggieerin.bsky.social #langsky #linguistics

New paper out🔥🔥🔥 We conducted a cross-linguistic review of citation tone studies and proposed a range of recommendations on ‘distilling’ citation tones. ⭐️: pubs.aip.org/asa/jasa/art... #phonetics #linguistics #tone #prosody

🔥 The first paper on Plastic Mandarin in the Journal of Phonetics is out! Check it out🌟 It’s fully open access. #phonetics #linguistics 🔗 authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...

Officially started my @leverhulme.bsky.social Early Career Fellowship at the University of Oxford. I am working on a variety of tone languages. Contact me if you have any collaboration ideas💡 🌟Check out my project: www.leverhulme.ac.uk/early-career...

Do you have a nerdy tier list? In my blog I talked about reference management and provided a thorough guide to @zotero and Zotero plugins. 🌟Read here: chenzixu.rbind.io/resources/4r...